The Minutes of Bill Gurley on career change https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/career-change/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on career change: 10 verbatim quotes between February 2026 and March 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:00 +0000 Gurley notes forty percent of people shift away from college major within five years. https://minutesof.com/q/fa9bb3f8-096e-4679-b578-5b2b75dd7562/ https://minutesof.com/q/fa9bb3f8-096e-4679-b578-5b2b75dd7562/ “I invested all of this to get to this college, to get to this degree. And if I move away from that, did I just waste all that time?” — Chris Williamson Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:00:16 +0000 career change Gurley asked himself if he saw himself doing computer engineering in thirty years, triggering his career shift https://minutesof.com/q/2b724da8-5ac7-476e-b7f3-5e72fcbde647/ https://minutesof.com/q/2b724da8-5ac7-476e-b7f3-5e72fcbde647/ “I was going home at night and studying something different. And I asked myself that question, do I see myself doing this in thirty years?” — Afford Anything Podcast Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000 career change Gurley used the thirty-year test again on Wall Street, walking through senior offices at 10PM. https://minutesof.com/q/c7181cd6-1504-4b04-8d78-ac2b730d2c39/ https://minutesof.com/q/c7181cd6-1504-4b04-8d78-ac2b730d2c39/ “I paused in each one of them and said, do I want to be here thirty years from now, like in that office? Assume I do great, but I've done this my whole life.” — Afford Anything Podcast Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000 career change Gurley describes how Tito's vodka founder launched number one North American spirit at age 40 with no prior in https://minutesof.com/q/99c113b4-8674-424e-b037-bdedf3d51860/ https://minutesof.com/q/99c113b4-8674-424e-b037-bdedf3d51860/ “And that exercise led Burt Beverage, whose nickname is Tito, to launch the first spirit company in Texas, a vodka company that now is the number one selling spirit in North America.” — Afford Anything Podcast Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000 career change Gurley is launching Running Down a Dream Foundation offering $105,000 grants to help people change career dire https://minutesof.com/q/efed3887-2d17-4499-948f-f4ee31fc444d/ https://minutesof.com/q/efed3887-2d17-4499-948f-f4ee31fc444d/ “I we'll see how it goes, but we're gonna offer a $105,000 grants to people who need a little boost to get headed in this direction.” — Bill Gurley Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:57:59 +0000 career change Gurley describes high school teacher who built football play categorization app with 700,000 followers after s https://minutesof.com/q/9898740b-1449-4e96-935a-dd07e05ac1fb/ https://minutesof.com/q/9898740b-1449-4e96-935a-dd07e05ac1fb/ “And it took about five years, but he launched a website where he categorizes offensive football plays, and then he created created a software app.” — Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:48:19 +0000 career change Gurley is launching a foundation offering $105,000 grants to help people change career direction. https://minutesof.com/q/89fcf22c-d27b-4bef-b8f5-fb26349dc357/ https://minutesof.com/q/89fcf22c-d27b-4bef-b8f5-fb26349dc357/ “I we'll see how it goes, but we're gonna offer a $105,000 grants to people who need a little boost to get headed in this direction.” — Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:48:19 +0000 career change Gurley realized by his second year as an engineer that repeating similar projects wasn't his long-term path. https://minutesof.com/q/4d348b2c-5228-4515-8051-d65b5d880c38/ https://minutesof.com/q/4d348b2c-5228-4515-8051-d65b5d880c38/ “I was an engineer. I had an engineering degree in undergrad and you know, in my second year as an engineer, you know, we were starting the third project I had worked on and it looked like the second and it looked like the first” — Scott D. Clary - Success Story Podcast Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:44:44 +0000 career change Gurley cites Danny Meyer leaving a $200,000 salary forty years ago to pursue restaurants. https://minutesof.com/q/091b25bb-7b45-47f1-8490-77018332d2e3/ https://minutesof.com/q/091b25bb-7b45-47f1-8490-77018332d2e3/ “Danny Meyer, when he, he walked away from a sales job, this company that sold these devices that hook into clothes so that you can't steal them from stores.” — Scott D. Clary - Success Story Podcast Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:44:44 +0000 career change Gurley cites Danny Meyer walking away from $200,000 salary forty years ago to pursue restaurant career. https://minutesof.com/q/93860fd2-2474-43f2-8707-b3d8c7f109ab/ https://minutesof.com/q/93860fd2-2474-43f2-8707-b3d8c7f109ab/ “He was making over $200,000 a year and this was forty years ago. And so that's a lot” — Scott D. Clary - Success Story Podcast Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:44:44 +0000 career change